MORE ON THE BUSH ECONOMY

According to the Christian Science Monitor, in constant dollars, America is slightly worse off in 2007 than it was in 1999.



The good news is that more people had healthcare coverage. The bad news for the Free Market worshippers is that this reduction was because of two government programs, Medicare and Medicaid:

The latest numbers indicate that the number of uninsured Americans fell from 47 million to 45.7 million from 2006 to 2007. According to David Johnson, an economist with the Census Bureau, this represented an increase in the number of people on public health insurance, such as Medicaid and Medicare.